Lawrence Halprin Quotes

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.

War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

I'm glad I never went to war.

In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

We came to know each other in war, and in war we continue.

The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.

Any great war must be a popular movement.

In a war, the hearts and minds of the people on the home front are just as important as the hearts and minds of those in the war zone.

I speak for a nation which, more than any other, has fought and bled.

By the Eternal, they shall not sleep on our soil.

I flung forward the flag of the country, sure that the people would press onward and defend it.